The 2023 season will be the last hurrah of the college football traditionalist.
A fan clinging to the old guard could be forgiven if the last two years of the whirlwind college football realignment news cycle has driven them to bury their head in the proverbial sand and pretend it’s just a bad dream.
That’s all the more reason to savor the coming months ahead of us.
Traditional college football will begin its farewell tour this fall starting with Week Zero on Aug. 26 and culminating with the national championship in January. Sure, it’ll be a little weird that BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston are now competing in the Big 12, but the heart of the 2023 season will more or less be the same than you’ve been accustomed to the last 10 years.